Sign #37
Another sign that some parents really have no idea what their kids are doing on the internet.
Lord Fa-da!
Written on August 13, 2008 – 7:58 am | by Mani |
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12 Responses to “Sign #37”
By GirlBlue on Aug 13, 2008 | Reply
I think Lord Fada sums that up quite nicely. How old do you think she is? 14? 15? Certainly not more than that.
My poor daughter doesn’t know the type of monitoring she is in for, bless her poor innocent, unsuspecting heart.
By devi on Aug 13, 2008 | Reply
you are so right….lord-fadda
this has some serious potentially dangerous consequences…..
By bandwagonist on Aug 13, 2008 | Reply
mani i doh wah know how u happened upon the clip…
By Soucouyant on Aug 13, 2008 | Reply
This says many things but more about the person rebroadcasting these images than the young people who made them. I didn’t look at all, but nothing I saw in four or five showed anything you wouldn’t see at a school Carnival fete or on broadcast TV. Where’s the scandal? The young women were fully clothed in all but one. Why do we have to objectify, and Dana Alleyne them, punishing them for being kids? Put them on a widely read blog without even obscuring their faces. And if they are minors, isn’t what you’re doing a kind of child pornography? It really sickened me. I hope you can take constructive criticism and won’t censor this. But I really hope you’ll remove the post from YOUR blog altogether.
By Mani on Aug 13, 2008 | Reply
GirlBlue, in her comments she replies to someone saying she was 11…geez. But, I’m laughing that you said your daughter doesn’t know the type of monitoring she is in for. lol. Good for you….and for her too.
Devi, lord fadda indeed. Where the parents?
Bandwagonist, with almighty God as my witness I can’t remember how I happened upon this video. I could tell you for sure that I wasn’t looking for it. It’s one of those things where you are looking at one video and you end up watching 20….this was one of that twenty.
Soucouyant, what are you talking about four or five? I’m confused. So let me get this straight, if something happens at a school carnival fete that makes it ok? If you think so, then brother we were raised differently. And if you don’t see a scandal, why did it sicken you and why would you accuse me of being a child pornographer? I’m all for constructive criticism, but I’m not sure that you really know how you feel about this post.
As for me, I thought the larger point was that parents need to take note of what their children do on the internet especially with all the technology around and with all the access children have to the internet. It hits you like a kick in the teeth, doesn’t it? Good! And I did weigh the pros and cons of doing this post and I decided to go ahead with it with the hopes that that larger point would be taken - however graphic or non-graphic you deem that lesson to be.
By wuzdescene on Aug 13, 2008 | Reply
this is disturbing on many levels …. I can’t believe I actually watched all 4 minutes and 15 seconds …. that child doin tings I doh even know how tuh do …. and fuh real … where de parents …. and who recorded it … and what are the other 36 signs Mani?
suck meh soucouyant …. remember dat dotish song?
By Soucouyant on Aug 13, 2008 | Reply
four or five: after playing the video highlighted, several others appear in a filmstrip below, including a Destra music video and something with Crazy…several young people wining for a camera, most seemingly older than the red shirt one we start with.
my point? we create scandal out of young people expressing the same sexuality we surround them with, then punish them for it and peddle recordings of their adolescent mistakes a la Dana Alleyne like it’s pornography
what’s also interesting is that these are middle class kids with cameras and internet access; what goes on in poorer communities is not so stylish
if your daughter had made the film u wouldn’t want her further embarrassed. da’s d point
i done
By Girlblue on Aug 13, 2008 | Reply
Apparently Soucouyant did not notice that that was a YouTube video put there by the child herself for millions to see. How exactly does she/he expect you to edit the face out. fully dressed child dancing, albeit what she at that age probably doesn’t even know is provocatively cannot in any way shape or from be considered child porn.
11 years old you say, my daughter is 10 in Nov and still a baby in many ways, I’ve seen her dancing and it looked nothing like that at all but then again she is still all Disney Channel where they don’t exactly rock back then bend down low if ya know what I mean
By Jill on Aug 18, 2008 | Reply
haha i died! she is so young, at that age i had no rhythm whatsoever. it is disturbing..
i guess some parents don’t realise just what their kiddies can get up to when they’re not around. my parents certainly can’t keep an eye on me 24/7 - and with the advancement of technology - some parents can’t keep up with all the webcams, facebook, you tube etc..
It isn’t exactly child porn, she kept everything on right? I stopped watching. It just is a reality of today’s youth - way too sexual before they are even ready!
By Vami on Aug 19, 2008 | Reply
this was too much to watch. I can only imagine what a pedophile will do with this.
By Kayode on Aug 28, 2008 | Reply
I understand soucouyant’s point about young people expressing their sexuality. I remember gettin on quite dutty (at least what passed for dutty back then) in school fetes. Now that I’m an adult, and even worse, a teacher, I find myself at the uncomfortably hypocritical stage where I can’t condone the sins of my students, but know what they’re going through.
The bottom line is that many of us went through similar phases (albeit performing different actions) when we were younger. Most of us grew out of it.
I think Mani is addressing the much more important point regarding children filming themselves and putting it up on the internet. Ignorance of the technology that surrounds us these days is bad enough, but when you’re ignorant of the technology that you put into the hands of your children, or that they interact with regularly…it gets downright dangerous.
Sometimes people need to be shocked into action. I see the video’s been taken down. Looks like the shock was sufficient.
The saddest aspect of this issue to me is that so many people like this young girl and the audience she caters for will never really explore the wonders of this internet thing.
Their whole experience will revolve around MySpace, bullsht vids on youtube, celebrity gossip and mp3s.
By jill on Sep 29, 2008 | Reply
mani whey yuh? offshore surveying? :p